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johnpaulhayes / wordsinwords.py
Created February 1, 2014 14:46
find a list of words in a word for each entry in a dictionary
word_list = []
with open ('word_list.txt', 'r') as words:
for word in words:
word_list.append(word.strip())
def contains(subword, word):
res = []
for s in subword:
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johnpaulhayes / ubuntu_update_heartbleed.txt
Created April 10, 2014 09:18
Update Ubuntu OpenSSL in response to Heartbleed bug.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libssl1.0.0 openssl
# Confirm Build Date is at least Aril 7th 2014
openssl version -a
# Restart all services listed by this command:
sudo lsof -n | grep ssl | grep DEL
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johnpaulhayes / upload_file_to_s3.py
Created June 25, 2014 14:52
Upload a file to S3 bucket
"""
Requirements:
AWS Account
Valid Access key and secret
A valid bucket setup
"""
from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
from boto.s3.key import Key
import sys
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johnpaulhayes / ExchangeRates.py
Created February 19, 2015 17:57
Retrieve exchange rates from Central Bank of Ireland and load them into a dictionary
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib
import xlrd
class ExchangeRates():
"""
Class to fetch exchange rate information from the Central Bank of Ireland
Example:
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johnpaulhayes / sum_value_in_dict.py
Last active August 29, 2015 14:19
Sum a value field in a dictionary
dicts_with_values = [{"value": 30}, {"value": 20}, {"value": 1}]
""" Horrible! """
result = reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, [i["value"] for i in dicts_with_values])
""" Nice, Pythonic """
result = sum([i["value"] for i in dicts_with_values])
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johnpaulhayes / reverse_mailmerge.asp
Created May 8, 2015 11:39
Macro for splitting a mail-merge document into single files.
Sub Splitter()
Dim Mask As String
Dim Letters As Long
Dim Counter As Long
Dim DocName As String
Dim oDoc As Document
Dim oNewDoc As Document
Set oDoc = ActiveDocument
oDoc.Save
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johnpaulhayes / thousandsSeparater.js
Created June 29, 2015 13:08
Javasript thousands seperator
function thousdansSeparater(nStr) {
nStr += '';
x = nStr.split('.');
x1 = x[0];
x2 = x.length > 1 ? '.' + x[1] : '';
var rgx = /(\d+)(\d{3})/;
while (rgx.test(x1)) {
x1 = x1.replace(rgx, '$1' + ',' + '$2');
}
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johnpaulhayes / gist:6422556
Created September 3, 2013 11:17
Perform an action for each directory found in a given location
#! /bin/bash
# Description: For each directory in ~/Development, descend into it, pull the latest from git and come back out of it.
find ~/Development/. -type d -print0 -maxdepth 1 | while IFS= read -r -d '' dir
do
cd $dir
git pull
cd ../
done
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johnpaulhayes / gist:6580864
Created September 16, 2013 13:44
Switch branches of a number of git repositories in a specific path
from git import Repo
from git import InvalidGitRepositoryError
import sys
import os
import getopt
settings = {
'repos_path': '/path/to/your/git/repos',
'cmd_options': 'b:r:',
'this_file_name': 'the_name_of_this_script.py'
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johnpaulhayes / gist:6881375
Created October 8, 2013 08:22
pre-commit hook that checks for various python based 'crud' such as pdb, ipdb, print statements, console output. Taken from http://css.dzone.com/articles/why-your-need-git-pre-commit
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import re
import subprocess
import sys
modified = re.compile('^(?:M|A)(\s+)(?P<name>.*)')
CHECKS = [